THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. LXVIII.]
Epitome
AND
China Overland Trade
CONTENTS.
Report.
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 5TH SEPTEMBER, 1908.
Mr. W. Martin, American Consul General at Haokow, has returned from the United States after several mouths' leave of absence at home.
Mr. Taka-akita Kato, ex-minister for Foreign Affairs, and formerly Japanese Minister in 163 London, will probably succeed Baron Komura
as Ambassador to Great Britain.
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Leading Articles.-
The Olympic Games...
Japanese Finance
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The Expansion of Armaments
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Piracy on the West River
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Random Reflections
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Chinese Lady sent to Gaol
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Hongkong Sanitary Board
Supreme Court
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The Cholera on the "Arratoon Apcar
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The Collapse of Buildings in the Typhoon
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Alleged Armed Robbery near Saikung
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The Seizure of "Arms" at Amoy.... China's Import Trade
Proposed Emergency Volunteer Corps Improved Telephone Communication
Canton ..................................
Macao
Improvements at Macao
Rongkong....
The Prohibition of Torture in China Commercial....
Shipping ... ... .... .....
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Rear Admiral Mattusevitch, at present Com- mandant of the port of Vladivostock, has been appointed Commander-in-Chief of Russia's Naval forces in the Far East (!)
The Governor of Kwangi, Chang Ming-ob'i, has reported to the Peking Government that over six hundred rebels have been decapitated in his province since last January.
The Nanking City Railway was opened on the 26th ult. with great eclat. The correspon- dent of the N.-C. Daily News says the road is well built and reflects great credit on all concerned.
The residence of Mr. J. El de Becker at 170 Kamakura, Japan, has been destroyed by fire, The loss is very beavy and among the property 171 destroyed was a fine library and a valuable 171 collection of curios.
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The Tageblatt states that Mr. Otto Kleemann, late of the firm of Walte & Co., has been .171 appointed commercial advisor to the. German Legation at Peking; and returns there from Europe very shortly.
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ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The English Mail of the 7th August and the parcel Mail which closed in London for despatch by the all sea route on the 29th July, and for despatch overland on the 5th August arrived per a.s. Devanha on the 2nd inst.
FAR EASTERN NEWS.
Mr. Frederick D. Cloud has been appointed American Consul at Antung, Manchuria.
A very successful Bazaar has been held by the Chinese at Swatow in aid of the West River Flood Funds,
A Chinaman has been sentenced in Manila to six months' imprisonment for smuggling 150 cans of opium into the islands.
Cholera is decreasing in the Philippines. Only 19 cases and 15 deaths were reported last Saturday from the four districts affected.
Marriage Reform is the latest undertaking of the Chinese Government. Chang Chih Tung is an active supporter of this reform.
This year for the first time since American occupation the number of departures of Chinese from the Philippines has exceeded the arrivals. In fact statistics show a decided decrease in the Chinese population, says | the
Manila Cablenews.
In consequence of the excessive beat prevail- ing," the Foreign Exchange Banks at Hankow are now open for public business from 10a.m. to 1 p.m. daily. The bours were curtailed at the suggestion of the Chamber of Commerce.
The seaside resort of Shanhajkwan is un- usually animated this season. The British and French Military bands play every evening, and sometimes during the afternoon. The presence of numerous officers' families renders the place quite lively.
Nanking is transferred as Consal to Fiume. Freiherr von Gebsattel, German Consal at Freiherr von Loehneysen, Consul at tankow, has obtained home leave and left for Germany. Vice-Consul Freiherr von Mueffing has been appointed Acting Consul in his place.
The British Post Office at Shanghai an. nounces in
the Shanghai papers that all correspondence intended for transmission to Europe via Siberia and so endorsed, will in future be forwarded by the new route via Dalny, | stook."
unless especially supersoribed via Viadivo-
Cholera seems to be rife in the Yangtse ports. Dr. G. F. Stooke, L.R.C.P., who Customs Medical Officer at Ichang, died there was the recently from cholera. The compradore of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co, Ld., at that port has also died from cholera.
M. Grenier Belgian Minister, has sent a Government is desirous of acquiring a Belgian despatch to the Wai-wa-pu intimating that his Settlement at Hankow, in view of the recent expansion of Belgian trade and interests in that region. The Wai-wn-pa is awaiting a report on the suggestion from the Viceroy of the Ha. Kwang Provinces.
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that the Government has issued a programme A Tokyo telegram to the Daily Press states
of financial retrenchment. Various public works, estimated to cost two hundred million yen, have been postponed, and a sum of fifty million yen is to be set aside annually for the redemption of the national debt. The National Railw ys are placed to a special account. It at Kobe and Yokohama will also be postponed. is probable that the harbour improvement works
A Mr. E. C. Fowler, a former resident of Shangbai, is returning from Canada with the and cattle. The prices paid in China for object of developing a trade in Canadian horses Australian horses and cattle are described as "enormous, ..
and it is calculated that the shorter sea voyage from Vancouver and the lower cost of the animals from North-West Canada are factors which promise great success for the project, which is stated to have a good backing in China,
in Tokyo in 1912, has been postponed until 1917. The Exhibition originally arranged to be held The Municipal Council of Tokyo has passed a resolution protesting against the postponement, and demanded the return of the 1,970,000 Yen contributed by the Council towards the exhibi- tion fund They also refused to co-operate with the promoters of the exhibition in 1917, and demanded that compensation should be paid to people who have been dispossessed of land on the Aoyama site, * The announcement has occasioned great p.blic resentment.
A report of a steamer foundering in a typhoon on August 26th, near the Goto Islands, in the Korean Channel, west of Kyushu, is confirmed, The steamer, telegraphs our Tokyo correspondent, was the "Dunearu,” oummanded by Captain Graham, and bound for Singapore. Two British survivors out of a crew of 55 were rescued by a Japanese steamer and landed at Moji. The rest are believed to have 2,020 net tons belonging to the Dunedin perished. The "Dunearn was a steamer of
Steamship Co., of Leith. She was built of steal at Sunderland in 1895, and was formerly called
Avery Hill."
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Tientsin, like most of the China ports, is not
coming down, is amply proved, says a Tiantsin few years. That house rents are gradually so flourishing now as it has been during the laat
contemporary, by the few houses which have been let lately at rents some 25 per cent, leas
than has been the rate obtainable for the last few years. In one case we know of, a large 6-roomed fully-furnished house, which last year would have commanded Tls. 150 a month easily, is still unlet though only Tls. 60 is asked for it. Small houses still fetch a reasonable rate; but for the larger ones there is no foreign demand; and they can only be let to Chinese officials.
Sir Pelham Warren, K C.M.G., Consul-Gener- al, and the Hon Charles Denby, Consul-General Trustees for the Central China Famine Rellaf for the United States of America, the Joint Fund, on August 25 dispatched to H. M. Consul General at Canton a draft for $82,963.47 representing Shaughai Tla. 62,844.83, the balance remaining to the credit of the Famine Sheng Kung Pao and the Shanghai Taotui Fand which is now in their hands. H. E. have addressed to them a request that the funds at their disposal might be devoted to the relief of the suff-rers from the famine in the South of China, and they have decided that the funds may properly be devoted to this catzne,
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